Donna Kimball, a veteran of the Jim Henson Company, will play Aughra – who was voiced by Frank Oz in the film, while several other puppeteers will also voice other characters.

Director Louis Leterrier Leterrier, whose credits include Now You See Me, Clash of the Titans, and The Incredible Hulk, told Entertainment Weekly he was determined to make the TV show honour the ’82 film as much as possible, and would use classic puppetry rather than CGI for the characters.

‘I was not fighting against anyone, I was fighting against common sense and practicality,’ he said.

‘It’s so, so complicated to build a puppet, hire puppeteers, all that stuff. We chose the long, hardest road and we’re very thankful [we did]. It looks absolutely stunning.’

Thankfully Netflix got in touch and posed the question ‘why not puppets?’ and suggested doing a television series, at the production quality of a feature film.

‘It has been a remarkable journey for us to be as ambitious as we have been, and I think the director Louis Leterrier took us to another level,’ she said.

‘Thanks to that man it is more cinematic and more thrilling than the original movie, because we know we were capable of getting the puppets and puppet action to another level entirely.’

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is streaming now on Netflix.

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